William Caspar Graustein Memorial FundWorked with Diversity and Inclusion Team to assess current organizational issues and build staff’s capacity to align their policies, practices and culture to their value of equity.

Interaction Institute for Social ChangeWorked with staff and consultant team to sharpen understanding of structural racism and apply the analysis to both internal dynamics and client work. Also provided coaching to the white caucus.

Everyday Democracy Worked with staff and associates to build their capacity and understanding of structural racism, racial equity, diversity and inclusion to further learn about race and power in the work environment and their community change work. Our support included:

﻿Co-facilitated staff and associates retreats in 2009 and 2010

Coached the Diversity Inclusion Team

Potapchuk presented and discussed racial equity and its connection to community change work and democracy building with the Paul J. Aicher Foundation’s Board of Trustees (Everyday Democracy is the primary project of the Aicher Foundation)﻿

Indiana State University Worked on a research and assessment process to conduct a qualitative study of the experiences of faculty and professional staff in their first two years of employment at ISU, and evaluate and recommend recruitment and hiring policies, procedures and practices with respect to diversity.

Working with Shiree Teng and Brigette Rouson to build the capacity of Provide to align policies, practices, and processes with their values of diversity, inclusion and equity.​ Working with Diane Goodman and Michael Funk to support the executive team of Queens Legal Services to continue leading the equity change process.​Department of Children, Youth and Families, Chester County, PAWorked with Sally Leiderman, Center for Assessment and Policy Development and Gwen Wright, Change Matters, to conduct an assessment and build capacity of agency’s Diversity Team to address racial disproportionality. The process included: identifying promising practices in the broader child welfare arena, conducting a needs assessment (survey, in-depth interview and focus groups of staff and service users), and designing and facilitating skill-building workshops and individual coaching.

Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE)Provide design support and case study development for PRE’s Racial Justice Funders’ Lab. The Lab is a two-day session with a select group of foundation leaders to build a collective knowledge base and provide support to philanthropic leaders addressing issues of structural racism through grantmaking.

Race Forward and the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial EquityServed as project manager for a pilot project with Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity and Race Forward (formerly, Applied Research Center) using their Racial Equity Grantmaking Assessment Tool with two foundations, the Barr Foundation and the Consumer Health Foundation. This tool was designed to share the benefits of being explicit about racial equity, and to determine the degree to which a foundation’s work is advancing racial justice.

California TomorrowServed on the consulting team for the Leading By Example Initiative sponsored by California Tomorrow and Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth to build the capacity of four community foundations to address inclusion and equity issues.